I do here what I did in the .org forums. It’s not my job to ‘modlook’ a thread and nuke it just because the opinion is different.
It is my place to ask people to step back and relax if things are getting heated, and it is my place to respond to feedbacks sent in to Support. Which I do.

I have always said that a moderator’s job is to not be seen moderating. Keep things tidy, move what needs to be moved, remove junk highlighted by users. Somewhere on the wp-forums mailing list is the full words of what I think and I won’t be thinking anything different now.

I don’t think the forums are bad and that is down to everyone that uses them – if the tone and helpfulness stay good then the job of moderating falls.

i was the one who modlooked it. i thought it should’ve been moved to off-topic since it wasn’t to do with wp.com. i should’ve known better than to modlook something i know nuts of. i’d leave the modlooking to people with more knowledge and authority in future.